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At this point I assume all articles saying “young people are doing X” to be total bollocks. Like the articles we’ve seen here about paper maps making a comeback

At this point I assume all articles saying “young people are doing X” to be total bollocks. Like the articles we’ve seen here about paper maps making a comeback for young people (a small handful of people were using them as art) or the “young people trading their smartphones for dumb phones” which had a tiny sample size and sounded like bullshit. Nowadays you find 1-2 tweets (or similar), call it a trend, and move on to then next shovel-blog article.

heywhatupboys 3y ago
100 %, articles like this are the bane of the modern world.
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RicoElectrico 3y ago
In principle I would agree, but trust me, they're onto something. I know such women around 30 who are passionate with this shit. Hell, a new word in Polish was coined for them, "zodiakara".
- pndy 3y ago
  > Hell, a new word in Polish was coined for them, "zodiakara". Sounds like a sub-genre of madka
pndy 3y ago
That is indeed total bollocks as you say but there's something going on regarding astrology in this half-year. Some two months ago after finishing configuring my first Android phone I'm seeing this weird banner at the bottom of Play Store [1] saying "What does your horoscope says about your gaming preferences? The best game for your zodiac sign". Then, there's this well-known Polish newspaper service gazeta.pl, which in its RSS channels publishes daily horoscope for about 3 or 4 months now. And about 4 days ago I'm seeing an ad on tv (mum jumps between live tv and netflix) regarding again, astrology and best around horoscope predictions in some magazine I never heard about. The question is, does there is indeed some high interest in this stuff that happen naturally. Or some manager in this half-year spotted a spike of interest and decided this is the new big thing for younger generations and now we're seeing the outcome: people being aggressively flood with astrology stuff all around. Or this is some well-thought campaign to condition younger people to drive further away from whatever values they barely hold on into this fringe territory of predicting one's future from star and planets positions. [1] - https://thumbsnap.com/i/aXG64SP8.jpg https://thumbsnap.com/i/aXG64SP8.jpg
Mordisquitos 3y ago
"Young People Sceptical of Articles Claiming New Trends in Young People"
- Brendinooo 3y ago
  They said 70 million Americans check their horoscope I’d like to see that broken down by age group, but if 20% of your population is doing something, that’s not the same as saying "I saw two people tweet about it" or whatever.
  - evandale 3y ago
    Is checking your horoscope considered believing in astrology? I ask because I check mine, but mostly for morning reminders and put my head on straight. Today mine starts with "The universe may deliver an ego bruise or two today, dear Virgo, as brooding Pluto squares off with the Nodes of Fate" and while I don't believe they're predicting a specific event it's nice to have that in the back of my mind today. Coincidentally, I have an email I'm expecting to be in my work inbox this morning that could be a bit of an ego bruiser. I've been dreading it all weekend and I was thinking about how to approach it last night and decided I was not going react and reply to the email today. After reading my horoscope this morning I had the idea that skipping the email today and not even reading it might be a good thing to do. It's not going to be urgent or require a reply so why not ignore it today if I think it's going to ruin my day? It damn near ruined my weekend and I don't even know if it's in my inbox. For me, my horoscope is no different from reading a random motivational quote every morning.
    - Brendinooo 3y ago
      > Is checking your horoscope considered believing in astrology? I don't think this is something that I can answer, but at the very least it says that you're neutral enough toward it to allow it to speak into your life.
      - evandale 3y ago
nicbou 3y ago
I always swap the subject with "a dozen people on twitter".
- joshstrange 3y ago
  We could only be so lucky if “a dozen people” was the bar that “journalists” held themselves to. I’ve seen articles written on a single post/comment from Reddit, it’s absurd. That said, I’m absolutely going to start rewriting titles in my head like that, good idea.
whywhywhywhy 3y ago
Most likely explanation and headline would be “Journalists TikTok feed showed 5 videos of young people doing X”
aodonnell2536 3y ago
In general I would agree, but I would like to add I have had two conversations in the last month or so with strangers who were both women in their late 20s to early 30s that involved their asking of my zodiac sign, and a quick rundown of what that meant

heywhatupboys 3y ago

100 %, articles like this are the bane of the modern world.

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RicoElectrico 3y ago

In principle I would agree, but trust me, they're onto something. I know such women around 30 who are passionate with this shit. Hell, a new word in Polish was coined for them, "zodiakara".

pndy 3y ago
> Hell, a new word in Polish was coined for them, "zodiakara". Sounds like a sub-genre of madka

pndy 3y ago

That is indeed total bollocks as you say but there's something going on regarding astrology in this half-year. Some two months ago after finishing configuring my first Android phone I'm seeing this weird banner at the bottom of Play Store [1] saying "What does your horoscope says about your gaming preferences? The best game for your zodiac sign". Then, there's this well-known Polish newspaper service gazeta.pl, which in its RSS channels publishes daily horoscope for about 3 or 4 months now. And about 4 days ago I'm seeing an ad on tv (mum jumps between live tv and netflix) regarding again, astrology and best around horoscope predictions in some magazine I never heard about. The question is, does there is indeed some high interest in this stuff that happen naturally. Or some manager in this half-year spotted a spike of interest and decided this is the new big thing for younger generations and now we're seeing the outcome: people being aggressively flood with astrology stuff all around. Or this is some well-thought campaign to condition younger people to drive further away from whatever values they barely hold on into this fringe territory of predicting one's future from star and planets positions. [1] - https://thumbsnap.com/i/aXG64SP8.jpg https://thumbsnap.com/i/aXG64SP8.jpg

Mordisquitos 3y ago

"Young People Sceptical of Articles Claiming New Trends in Young People"

Brendinooo 3y ago
They said 70 million Americans check their horoscope I’d like to see that broken down by age group, but if 20% of your population is doing something, that’s not the same as saying "I saw two people tweet about it" or whatever.
- evandale 3y ago
  Is checking your horoscope considered believing in astrology? I ask because I check mine, but mostly for morning reminders and put my head on straight. Today mine starts with "The universe may deliver an ego bruise or two today, dear Virgo, as brooding Pluto squares off with the Nodes of Fate" and while I don't believe they're predicting a specific event it's nice to have that in the back of my mind today. Coincidentally, I have an email I'm expecting to be in my work inbox this morning that could be a bit of an ego bruiser. I've been dreading it all weekend and I was thinking about how to approach it last night and decided I was not going react and reply to the email today. After reading my horoscope this morning I had the idea that skipping the email today and not even reading it might be a good thing to do. It's not going to be urgent or require a reply so why not ignore it today if I think it's going to ruin my day? It damn near ruined my weekend and I don't even know if it's in my inbox. For me, my horoscope is no different from reading a random motivational quote every morning.
  - Brendinooo 3y ago
    > Is checking your horoscope considered believing in astrology? I don't think this is something that I can answer, but at the very least it says that you're neutral enough toward it to allow it to speak into your life.
    - evandale 3y ago

nicbou 3y ago

I always swap the subject with "a dozen people on twitter".

joshstrange 3y ago
We could only be so lucky if “a dozen people” was the bar that “journalists” held themselves to. I’ve seen articles written on a single post/comment from Reddit, it’s absurd. That said, I’m absolutely going to start rewriting titles in my head like that, good idea.

whywhywhywhy 3y ago

Most likely explanation and headline would be “Journalists TikTok feed showed 5 videos of young people doing X”

aodonnell2536 3y ago

In general I would agree, but I would like to add I have had two conversations in the last month or so with strangers who were both women in their late 20s to early 30s that involved their asking of my zodiac sign, and a quick rundown of what that meant